Astronomers have identified what appears to be a cosmic smoking gun for a historic supernova explosion, a find that may also help with the search for elusive dark energy in the universe. The new ...
A massive supernova explosion that destroyed a faraway star apparently turned the left over stellar corpse inside out as well, scientists say. Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory spacecraft, a team ...
When stars die, they go out kicking and screaming. Astronomers capture the early stages of a supernova explosion for the first time. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his ...
Kepler's Supernova, which is named after German astronomer Johannes Kepler, was one of the more popular supernovas in the visible universe, and it's one of the more recent supernovas to have been ...